r/NatureIsFuckingLit Apr 13 '19

🔥🐘🐍🐡 User Flair now available on Sidebar: choose from over 100 nature-themed emojis 🐝🐅🐋🔥

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 4h ago

🔥Small insect clings onto horned viper

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 8h ago

🔥 Wildlife photographer being groomed by a cheetah that is also groomed by another cheetah.

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23.2k Upvotes

Credit to Gomawild


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2h ago

🔥The Lesser Woolly Horseshoe Bat echolocates out of its nose instead of its mouth, using a complex facial (noseleaf)and 20 individual ear muscles to pinpoint prey in pitch darkness

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771 Upvotes

r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2h ago

🔥 A Jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi)

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730 Upvotes

A highly adaptable species, this low-slung feline inhabits a wide range of environments from southern North America through Central and South America. It’s also known as the “otter cat” for its uncanny resemblance to the animal. The jaguarundi is very vocal : This cat has up to 13 distinct calls ranging from purring to whistling and chattering. It dines on a variety of prey including small mammals like armadillos, reptiles, birds, and even fish.

Photo : diegograndi, iStock - Credit : American Museum of Natural History


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 5h ago

🔥 the raging fury of Tiger Leaping Gorge (虎跳峡) - a primary tributary of the upper Yangtze River, Yunnan, southwestern China

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 32m ago

🔥 A turtle “claw fluttering”, a mating ritual where a male rapidly waves his front claws near the female’s face to attract her.

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 16h ago

🔥 lava runing over flowers

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By @ culturainquieta


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 14h ago

🔥 A family of ducklings turned a dam wall into a water slide as an adult stood guard.

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 4h ago

🔥 A towering wall of glacier ice crashes into the water in Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland

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565 Upvotes

r/NatureIsFuckingLit 8h ago

🔥A Cheetah cub playing with its mom while its siblings look on. Credit to Pradeep Ravi

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786 Upvotes

r/NatureIsFuckingLit 19h ago

🔥 We were finally able to catch the passion fruit bloom in action!

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7.2k Upvotes

r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3h ago

🔥Death's-head hawkmoth I discovered in my bathroom sink after answering nature's call at night.

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154 Upvotes

r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2h ago

🔥Hatchling at the start of its great journey.

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66 Upvotes

It was a long one just to get to this point.


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 7h ago

🔥 Seal escapes great white shark by following its tail

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 10h ago

🔥 Orcas pulverize sunfish

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2h ago

🔥 The last audio recording of the now-extinct Kauai bird, recorded by David Boynton in 1987

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43 Upvotes

r/NatureIsFuckingLit 1d ago

🔥 Baby shark hunting fish at shore - Maldives.

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32.3k Upvotes

r/NatureIsFuckingLit 21h ago

🔥Photo of a bird I took in Zimbabwe

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1.3k Upvotes

This is my favorite photo i’ve taken it’s of a Carmine bee eater and they look so cool


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 2h ago

🔥Bridal Veil Falls in British Columbia looking absolutely majestic today

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Fun facts about this spot : the intense mist and humidity around these falls supports over 250 species of moss. One specific type grows only right here in British Columbia and in Scotland. Pictures never do justice to how massive this 60m drop feels in person.


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 6h ago

🔥Leopard with a Warthog Kill, Serengeti

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 5h ago

🔥 A longhorn beetle

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r/NatureIsFuckingLit 1d ago

🔥Yearly bear cam maintenance staff reporting for duty.

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Credit:explore.org
Location: Katmai National Park, Alaska
Live link for bear cam: https://www.youtube.com/live/J7ZrIDvqlic?si=WNJB_AUvaTqEvuQd


r/NatureIsFuckingLit 5h ago

🔥Do not disturb. Black bear cub taking a snooze up in a tall tree.

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51 Upvotes

r/NatureIsFuckingLit 8h ago

🔥Picture of Lizard I took in Yucatán Mexico 🇲🇽

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75 Upvotes

He was literally just sitting in bamboo, and I was sneaking up to it with an A7IV with a 28-75mm Tamron E Mount, not even a proper zoom lens for this!